For Juneteenth, we're sharing the Black Women Oral History Project Interviews (1976–1981). Supported by The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, this project recorded women who made significant contributions to American society in the early 20th century.
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-129/ this week in sentences: Daily Shaving, utopia, detestable, uneasy suspension, enduring emptiness, almost killed, sixty-six days, Ancient Greek accentuation
more blogging, today about the prehistory of map tiles https://placing.technology/notes-on-the-history-of-the-map-tile
I blogged about the burning waymos because I didn't want to actually think about my dissertation lol https://placing.technology/reverse-engineering-the-incinerated-waymo
I think it's really funny that Anthony Levandowski still has a personal website with like, his portfolio of projects like he's just some regular guy https://anthonylevandowski.com/projects
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-128/ this week in sentences: balefully, wreckage, IKEA instructions, the sunlight of, maniacs, jungle gym, quarterly performance review, inconvenient fact, strip-mining, managed bad idea, lakes, oak father, only monetary
https://placing.technology/media-archaeology-with-rand-mcnallys-trucker-tools-2001 I blogged about vintage trucking route planning software I bought on eBay
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-127-2067/ this week in sentences: six-fingered messiahs, blown like glass, oxygen-filled, entire roast chicken, no ocean, shrimp, electron
Oof the RIP Corp team picked a weird news day to drop our "just a reminder Elon Musk has always been the worst" episode, but if you like Colette Shade and financial crisis lore you're in luck https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/everything-is-the-financial-crisis
https://www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/julien-s-auctions-turner-classic-movies-present-the-david-lynch-collection on the one hand material possessions are ephemeral and not central to living on the other oh my god everything David Lynch owned was so beautiful and perfect